Bottle-cooling chest



L. H. BANNISTER.

BOTTLE COOLING CHEST.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1920 PatentedJune 6, 1922.

INVENTUFJ.

TIE- -1- LORm'G H. BANNISTER, TOLEDO, OHIO.

BOTTLE-COOLING- CHEST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1922.

Application filed September 20, 1920. Serial No. $11,449.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, LORING H. BANNISTER,

' a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toledo, county .of Lucas, and State of Ohio, have made an Invention Appertaining to Bottle-Cooling Chests; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to .which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to cooling boxes and particularly to those adapted for cooling bottled goods. I

The object of my invention is the provision of a cooling means of the class de-' scribed, which is adapted to keep bottled goods of different kinds separated froim each other so that a bottle of any particular goods can be easily found and it is possible for a person toquickly note at any time the number of bottlesof each kind he has in the cooling box.

Anfther object of the invention is to provvide means for arranging the bottles in rev.clining position in vertical rows adapted to be partially submerged in a cooling medium and permitting the oottles to be removed one at a time from the bottom of the row so that each time the, coldest bottle, or the one which has been the longest time in the cooling medium, is removed.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and while, in its broader aspect, it is capable of embodiment in numerous forms, a preferred embodiment thereof is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which,- v

Figure 1 is a top plan View of a cooling means embodying the invention with the cover members removed. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal section thereof with the covers in position, and Fig. 3 is a cross section of the cooling means.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a box having removable covers on its top portion. The box is provided interiorly with a bottle container 2 preferably of sheet metal and having its sides provided with a plurality of horizontally spaced vertical webs or flanges 3 forming the compartments or stalls 4 ofpro er size to receive bottles 5, which are inten ed to be inserted in reclining position in the stalls at the upper ends thereof. The webs or flanges 3 are provided at their outer edges with beads or enlargements 6 extending from the tops of the webs to near the bottoms thereof so as to cooperate with the neck ends of bottle bodies to prevent a withdrawal of the bottles transversely from a stall 4 except at the lower end of the stall.

The sides 7 of the receptacle 2 are preferably outwardly inclined from their bottom edges upwardly, with the bottom of the receptacleat the bases of the spaces 4 inclined at substantially a right angle to the respectlve sides to cause a slight inclining of the bottles resting in, the receptacle stalls. The space between the stalls .4, which are arranged at opposite sides of the receptacle, is sufiicient to permit a withdrawal of the bottles inwardly from any stall.

At one end of the receptacle 2 is provided a compartment 8 for a cooling medium, illustrated in the present instance as ice, and the partition 9 between the compartment 8 and bottle receptacle is provided with openmgs to permit" a circulation of water through the lower portion of the receptacle2 from the compartment 8. The

water is preferably of a depth to submerge three or four bottles in a vertical row and is maintained atsuch depth by an overflow 10 at the end of the receptacle opposite the compartment 8. The liquid within the receptacle is maintainedjat low temperature by the ice or other cooling means in the compartment 8 and sufiicient circulationis set up by the escaping water from the outlet 10 to maintain the water'- cold at the farther end of the receptacle.

The top of the bottle receptacle is closed, in the present instance, by a pair of slide covers 11 and 12 adapted to slide one overthe other in the top portion of the box 1, and the receptacle 8 is closed by a cover 13.

It is evident that by maintaining bottled goods of different kinds in the different stalls and having the stalls designated in someway to show the particular goods contained therein, it is a simple and easy matter for a person to ascertain the number of bottles of any particular goods contained in the-cooler and to know when fresh bottles should be supplied thereto. The provision of the beads or compartments at the outer edges of the stall partitions or flanges prevents the bottles from being withdrawn transversely therefrom except at the top or from the bottom of each stall, at which latter place the lower ends of the beads are cut away to provide withdrawal openings, thus insuring the removal each time from the cooler ot' the bottom bottle of a row, which bottle is the coldest.

Lwish it understood that my invention is not limited to any specific construction, arrangement or form of the parts, as it is capable of numerous modifications and changes without departing from the spirit of the claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,--

In a cooling means of the class described, a box having removable covers and an ice receiving chamber at one end, a bottle container disposed within the box and having a plurality of stalls interiorlythereof along its opposite sides with the stalls vertically disposed and inwardly inclined from top to bottom with their inner sides open to the interior of the container to permit the projection of bottle necks therethrough when disposed in reclining position one over another in the stalls, the inner edges of the stalls being broadened except at the bottoms thereof to permit the lateral Withdrawal of the lowermost bottle only of a vertical row from a stall, the bottoms of the stalls being inwardly and upwardly inclined and the tops of the stalls being open, the container having an end open to the ice chamber to permit the flow of a cooling liquid from the ice chamber through the container in submerging relation to the lower bottles in the stalls.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification.

LORING H. BANNISTER. 

